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GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN. 16...
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Ii.—Female Artists. By An Italian.
_Giulio Cesare Croee ( the author of Bertoldo Bertoldino and Caeasenno )" tor is portraits by which lier by liand are her . reproduced , of In the the famil house in y Pompeo of of the Count Senator Litta Gozzadini ' s Gozzadini work , entitled there , his are ances " The two
-Illustrious , Families of Italy . " Lavinia painted likewise , the portrait of Monsignore Ratta , another of Pope Gregory XIII .,
another of Cesare Caporali , one of Andrea Casali when a boy , and five others of different ladies of the same family . In many
of the family picture galleries of Rome and of Bologna , there are superb portraits _execiited by her . The portrait the warmth of Lindra and trans , the
mother of Simon Tassi , is so remarkable for - parency Guido Reni of the ; and carnation the same s , that mistake for a long so honorable time it was to - attributed her genius to ,
, has befallen other of her works . ( 15 ) But her chef d' ceuvre is her own portrait when young and surpassingly beautiful , which is now
in the possession of Count Zappi at Iniola , and has been engraved by Rosini for his History of Italian painting . ( 16 ) The portrait is
painted models artist is in seated in clay an , oval at of a busts ; table in , heads the on ¦ which back , trunks ground are , hands two , ranged casts , and of feet on Greek a , etc shelf statues . , The are .
She is in the act of commencing a drawing , and is evidently pausing to concrete her idea . She is dresssd with elegant simplicity ; the
folds of the mantle are clear and ample , and the lines are free from conventionality . From under the ruff which enfolds her neck
( reminding us of Vandyk ) there hangs a pearl necklace , to which is attached a golden crucifix . She wears a Mary Stuart head-dress .
The head , seen in three quarters , is colored with wonderful delicacy and transparency . This work partakes of the characteristics of two
schools of art , that of Francia and that of Guido . There is the severe drawing and coloring of the one , and the incomparable grace
of the other . ( 17 ) All her works , as we said before , are divided into two styles . ( 18 ) The first may be recognised in the Holy Family
mentioned above in the church of the Madonna del Baracano ; in the other in the church of San Giacomo ; in the Madonna in the
gallery of the Hercolani family at Bologna , and in other of her paintings of reliious subjects . These are distinguished by all the
correctness of that g school , which was developed gradually from Lippo delle Madonne to the Ecclectics . The second style we find
chiefly in her portraits , in which she was far more successful than acquire ( 15 ) d " After suchsoftness her acquaintance of touchthat witb the Caracci of her , portraits " writes were Lanzi mistaken , " she
for ( ( 1 16 those 7 ) ) Vol There of . V Gui , is ., do cap also . " . " a 8 o Yol . Pisa tr . ait IV , 1 ., 845 of , Scuola . Lavini many Bolognese a in the . Academy at Home .
Baglione ( 18 ) , Le vite land dei Pitt por , etc ., p three . 237 . paintings by Lavinia FontanaAt
Corsham Eng Court are possesses a S . Cecilia and a S . Sebastian , also a picture on . wood of two irls in a boatand a youth rowing , " of very graceful motive and .
of careful this g treatment g ifted lady , " . " writes Art , " Wagon Treasures , " of this Great picture Britain has much , of the character
Gallery Of Illustrious Italian Women. 16...
GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN . 169
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/25/
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